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O. C. SHEPHERD.

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No 230,502. v Patented July-27,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. SHEPHERD, OF PASSAIG, NEW JERSEY.

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SPECIFICATIYON forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,502, dated July 27, 1880. Application filed May 12, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. SHEPHERD, of Passaie, in the county of Passaio and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Toy, of which the following is a specification.

Boxes have been made with a spring man or monkey that flies up when the cover is re moved. In this case there is no provision for any surprise except that which arises from allowing the cover to fly back.

. I have made what I term a surprise-box, with a sliding cover and a receptacle, into which candy or other substances can be placed, so that, as the cover is being drawn aside, this receptacle and its contents will be visible and attract the attention, and when the cover has .been drawn along to a certain point the jack will be liberated suddenly and spring up, causing a much greater surprise than the toy jacks that have heretofore been made. I

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section of the box in its closed condition, and Fig. 2 is a similar view with the box open.

The box has a bottom, a, sides I), and ends 0, and there is a sliding cover made in two parts, the part 6 being hinged at i to the part d.

The edges of the cover are grooved, and there are ribs 0 on the inner surfaces of the sides b,

near the top edges, upon which the cover slides, and these ribs are removed between the points 2 and 3 for a distance sufficient to allow the flap portion 0 of the cover to swing up or turn down.

There are stops at 5 that prevent the cover being drawn entirely out.

The spring jack or monkey or man or other toy figure employed'is made, in the usual manner, of flexible material around a spiral spring. If the cover 61 6 were pushed back and forth upon the top of this spring jack, the same woljld be drawn aside and either injured or misplaced. I therefore make use of a hinged jack-flap, k, that swings in the opposite direction to the flap e, so that after the spring'jack has been pushed down the flap k is turned over it and the cover slipped along sufficient to hold down the said flap 70. Then the coverflap e is swung over and the cover closed.

The receptacle for candy or other substance in the box is made by the partition 1, and there may also be a bottom or false bottom to lessen the depth of the receptacle.

When the cover is drawn aside the receptacle 1 is first exposed and the jack is held down until the flap 6 comes over the jack-flap 7c, and these swing in opposite directi0ns, and the spring surprise-jack jumps up, to the amusement of the young folks.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, with a spring-jack, of a sliding cover and a box having a receptacle within it that is exposed to view on sliding the cover before the jack is liberated.

2. The com bination, with thebox and springjack, of a two-part sliding cover and a hinged jack-flap, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 8th day of May, A. D. 1880.

CHAS. O. SHEPHERD. I Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINoKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH. 

